Coffeehouse Culture; Plain Text; Page Eight; Article Three

AS we all know (and, if we don’t, we should), increased consciousness means increased thinking power. So what is all this about smoking dope killing your brain or something?
WE don’t know about you, but we have had some of our most intellectually stimulating moments around coffeeshop tables deep in the fug of professional brain cellicide. Indeed, we think that dope smokers are by far the most interested and interesting conversationalists around. It must be because being unable to move from their chairs due to extreme stonedness, they have lots of time to read, watch TV and reflect on life. Whatever . . . . One thing is for sure, introduce a dope smoker into an assemblage of freethinking small-talkers and the conversation is sure to take off into new and unusual realms. Or die completely. Dope smokers are people with lively and interested minds who enjoy knowledge -- in its broadest sense -- and all its fruits.
WHAT is amazing is that there is no publication for these mentally alive, intellectual voyagers.
BUT stop, hold hard, avaunt and stop again. Now there is and you’re reading it.
MORE than a dope publication, Coffeehouse Culture defines and reflects the culture from which it springs. Hey, who said that just because we smoke dope we only have to have publications that are about dope? Aren’t our interests broader, more expansive than that?
OURS is a culture like any other -- except we have more fun. And this publication will reflect that culture as straight newspapers (and don’t you find them irrelevant to our interests) reflect straight society. But this ain’t straight society and Coffeehouse Culture ain’t The Times. As we said, this is a culture that has more fun. And we have got to reflect THAT!

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	PAGE EIGHT; ARTICLE THREE; POLICY STATEMENT Our meagre assault on the image of dope smokers as they are seen by the general public and sometimes by themselves. It is a sad reflection on something when members of a culture have to be told that they are members and what that means. Once again we find ourselves pointing to the contradictions. BRAIN CELLICIDE OR WHAT?
	AS we all know (and, if we don’t, we should), increased consciousness means increased thinking power. So what is all this about smoking dope killing your brain or something? WE don’t know about you, but we have had some of our most intellectually stimulating moments around coffeeshop tables deep in the fug of professional brain cellicide. Indeed, we think that dope smokers are by far the most interested and interesting conversationalists around. It must be because being unable to move from their chairs due to extreme stonedness, they have lots of time to read, watch TV and reflect on life. Whatever . . . . One thing is for sure, introduce a dope smoker into an assemblage of freethinking small-talkers and the conversation is sure to take off into new and unusual realms. Or die completely. Dope smokers are people with lively and interested minds who enjoy knowledge -- in its broadest sense -- and all its fruits. WHAT is amazing is that there is no publication for these mentally alive, intellectual voyagers. BUT stop, hold hard, avaunt and stop again. Now there is and you’re reading it. MORE than a dope publication, Coffeehouse Culture defines and reflects the culture from which it springs. Hey, who said that just because we smoke dope we only have to have publications that are about dope? Aren’t our interests broader, more expansive than that? OURS is a culture like any other -- except we have more fun. And this publication will reflect that culture as straight newspapers (and don’t you find them irrelevant to our interests) reflect straight society. But this ain’t straight society and Coffeehouse Culture ain’t The Times. As we said, this is a culture that has more fun. And we have got to reflect THAT!

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